Robin Mackay & Luke Pendrell 
Speculative Aesthetics [EPUB ebook] 

Three E”s of Doo Wop briefly tells how vocal groups the Echoes (Baby Blue), the Elegants (Little Star) and the Excellence (Coney Island Baby), came to be. It relates how these superb vocal groups ca …

Noël Carroll is one of the most prolific, widely-cited and distinguished philosophers of art, but how, specifically, has cinema impacted his thought? This book, one of the first in the acclaimed ”Fi …

Essentials of Visual Interpretation explains how to talk and write critically about visual media and to examine how evolving visual environments, media, and technologies affect human selfunderstandin …

A radically urgent intervention, An Inconvenient Black History of British Musical Theatre: 1900 – 1950 uncovers the hidden Black history of this most influential of artforms. Drawing on lost archive …

This timely book argues that the Global North’s research methods and traditional assumptions are not valid to the media landscapes and audiences of the Global South. With South Africa as the focus, t …

Participatory Design and Social Transformation introduces theories and methodologies for using image-oriented narratives as modes of inquiry and proposition toward greater justice and equity for soci …

The twenty-one contributions to About: Designing draw on a rich variety of methodological positions, research backgrounds and design disciplines including architecture, product design, engineering, a …

When did drawing become an integral part of architecture? Among several architects and artists who brought about this change during the Renaissance, Francesco di Giorgio Martini’s ideas on drawing re …

Michelangelo”s poems are like the letters of other artists: they range from formal words of thanks to passionate argument; they flatter patrons, address lovers – and God. As in his sculpture, Elizab …